Anderson Hitch
Looks good. Anyone use one of these?
Forum Discussion
cdevidal wrote:I attempted to explain the importance of tongue weight percentage a few years ago in this post.
Sorry I still don't get it. Maybe I'm dense? 5% is less weight than 10%. Less weight means potentially more sway, but this is corrected with the hitch.
The post gives a procedure for estimating the minimum tongue weight percentage for good yaw stability.
Read through the post and find the equation, "TW% = 100/(1 + [{c + L/2}*{c + L/2}]/[L*L/12])".
The parameter "c" represents the tongue length which typically is around 4'.
The Hensley Arrow hitch effectively increases the tongue length to about 8'.
That increase in effective tongue length decreases the "optimum" TW%, but it does not decrease it to zero. And, it does not decrease it to 5%.
For the example scenario of uniformly distributed mass and a TT body length of 20', the theoretical optimum TW% is reduced from 14.5% to 9.0%.
Post back if you have questions.
Ron
